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The normativity of the natural : human goods, human virtues, and human flourishing

The natural law addresses permissible moral choice through objective understandings of human nature and human goods. Persons are obligated to act in ways that are compatible with creating and integrating the basic human goods into their lives and the lives of others. This volume features a critical exploration of natural law theory.

The Normativity of the Natural: Can Philosophers Pull Morality Out of the Magic Hat of Human Nature? --
The Normativity of the Natural: Can Philosophers Pull Morality Out of the Magic Hat of Human Nature? --
Thomistic Foundations: Natural Law Theory, Synderesis and Practical Reason --
Human Nature and Its Limits --
Synderesis, Law, and Virtue --
Human Nature and Moral Goodness --
Natural Law for Teaching Ethics: An Essential Tool and Not a Seamless Web --
Human Goods and Human Flourishing: Revitalizing a Fallen Moral Culture --
Quid Ipse Sis Nosse Desisti --
Preparation for the Cure --
Diagnosing Cultural Progress and Decline --
The Malleability of Human Nature --
Reflections on Secular Foundationalism and Our Human Future --
Nature as Second Nature: Plasticity and Habit --
The Posthumanist Challenge to a Partly Naturalized Virtue Ethics --
The Challenge of Deriving an Ought from an Is --
Can Moral Norms Be Derived from Nature? The Incompatibility of Natural Scientific Investigation and Moral Norm Generation --
Moral Acquaintances and Natural Facts in the Darwinian Age.

Abstract:

Natural law is that which addresses moral choices through reason and through objective understandings of human nature and human goods, not through the dictates of a transcendent being. This volume is a critical exploration of natural law theory.Read more...